US10787781B2 - Marine and river protection system and method of supporting coastal structures - Google Patents
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- the presently disclosed subject matter relates generally to methods of protecting and stabilizing soil in a coastal or river environment and more particularly to a thin and confined erosion control mattress system for method of protecting coastal structures against bearing failure and erosion.
- Coastal structures such as living shorelines, groins and dikes must be founded on a stable foundation to avoid bearing capacity failure and scour erosion due to waves and current.
- channelized side slopes and piers should be protected against scour from water flow that leads to streambank erosion and ground loss.
- There are many traditional techniques that are used to enhance foundation stability and to protect coastal, harbor, and riverbank structures from scouring including the placement of rip rap stone, the placement of combinations of rip rap and filter layers, the placement of articulated concrete blocks, and the placement of stone filled geogrid-confined mattresses.
- One means to protect rip rap layers against internal scouring is by placing a layer of geotextile fabric below the rip rap layer during construction.
- the fabric is designed to allow for the passage of water but the retention of soil particles. This operation is effective for materials placed above the water level.
- the geotextile filter layer is not easily placed because it tends to be easily displaced by the moving current.
- the friction angle between the rip rap and the filter layer is often less than that for the rip rap/stone interface causing localized sliding if the rip rap is placed on a steepened slope. What is needed is a scour protection layer that prevents internal erosion and is easily placed below water.
- the mattress consists of plastic geogrids that form the boundaries of the mattress and is used to encapsulate and add tensile strength to the placed layer.
- the inner cells of the mattress are partitioned with baffles to prevent the infill stone from flowing entirely to one end or another during “picking” with a crane.
- the stone used in the mattress is typically on the order of 1 inch to 4 inches in diameter, thus requiring that the mattresses be a minimum of 6 inches thick.
- the advantage of this construction is that the mattresses may be placed at exact locations below water and that the tensile strength of the geogrid reduces the tendency of the mattress in fill stone to scour. Further the geogrid tensile strength increases the bearing capacity stability and the side slope stability of placed layers relative to rip rap.
- the thickness and unit weight of the stone causes the mattress to weigh 60 to 400 pounds per square foot of area coverage, a weight that results in the requirement of heavy equipment and large cranes for picking, lifting, and placement.
- the cost of placement depends more on the implementation of the construction equipment required for handling than it does on the mattress materials. What is needed is a lighter revetment that may be handled more easily by lighter equipment yet retains the tensile strength advantages.
- One aspect of the disclosure consists of a unique combination of a tensile element component (e.g., geogrid), a geotextile component, fill media (e.g., sand), and interspersed connection elements (e.g., rivets) that allow for the construction of thin (e.g., 1 to 2 inches in thickness) erosion control layers that may be placed at uniform thickness and with confidence below water.
- a tensile element component e.g., geogrid
- a geotextile component e.g., fill media
- interspersed connection elements e.g., rivets
- a further aspect of the present disclosure is directed to a composite material comprising an outer layer of geogrid that retains an inner geotextile filter fabric that in turn retains fill material, which may include sand fill, rock, gravel, aggregate, soil, commercial by-products (ash, slag, etc.), recycled material (glass, polymer chips, etc.), activatable/reactive materials (bentonite, bioremediate, etc.), or the like.
- fill material may include sand fill, rock, gravel, aggregate, soil, commercial by-products (ash, slag, etc.), recycled material (glass, polymer chips, etc.), activatable/reactive materials (bentonite, bioremediate, etc.), or the like.
- the sand comprises 1 ⁇ 4-inch diameter quarry run sand that is easily obtained and may be placed within the composite layer using either dry or wet filling methods.
- the sand fill is retained by a geotextile designed to retain the sand particles from moving but with sufficient permittivity to allow for the free flow of water.
- the geotextile layers are retained by a layer of geogrid that provides tensile strength important for picking, placement, overall integral stability, and scour protection.
- a uniform thickness is preferably maintained by the addition of a grid of rivets that are important during placement but typically serve only as a sacrificial function for construction.
- aspects of the present disclosure have the advantage that the disclosed erosion control layers are lightweight, approximately 3 to 15 pounds per square foot once filled, thus requiring much lighter construction equipment for placement.
- the invention includes its own internal scour prevention layer, thus preventing internal erosion.
- the invention further retains high strength that is provided by the high tensile strength geogrids that provide tensile strength for bearing capacity, side slope stability, and hydraulic erosion control applications.
- FIG. 1 illustrates a top down perspective view of a presently disclosed sand filled thin erosion control mattress system secured on the perimeter with specialty stitching for supporting foundation of coastal structures against bearing and erosion due to waves and current;
- FIG. 2 illustrates a cross-section view of the overall mattress system of FIG. 1
- FIG. 3 illustrates a cross-section view of an expanded view of a portion of the thin mattress system of FIG. 2 and showing more details thereof;
- FIG. 4 illustrates an example of a method filling operation of the presently disclosed thin mattress system for supporting foundation of coastal structures against bearing and erosion due to waves and current;
- FIGS. 5 and 6 illustrate an example filling frame for filling the mattress system
- FIGS. 7 and 8 illustrate a completed mattress being lifted.
- the presently disclosed subject matter provides a thin mattress system and method of supporting the foundation of coastal structures against bearing instability and erosion from waves and current.
- the presently disclosed apparatuses are directed to thin geotextile confined sand mattresses comprising fill material (such as sand fill), layers containing a geotextile fabric to contain the infill material and an external geogrid to provide tensile strength required for placement and to provide overall comprehensive stability, and a network of interspersed rivets to hold the mattress and fill together and to provide for a substantially uniform thickness.
- the geogrid which could be biaxial or multi-axial, provides tensile strength for picking during installation, improving foundation support and rigidity to the mattress system.
- the rivets are designed and spaced to secure the mattress together for substantially uniform filling and installation.
- the geotextile and geogrid mat are sewn together at the perimeter and at the filling ports once it is filled with sand or gravel.
- the presence of the thin mattress system protects the coastal structures or riverbank against bearing failure and erosion from waves and current. Namely, the presence of the thin mattress system according to the present disclosure substantially improves the foundation stability of coastal structures as compared to a coastal structure installed on a foundation absent the presently disclosed thin mattress system.
- An aspect of the presently disclosed thin mattress systems and methods is that the systems can be used to help prevent erosion around the foundation of coastal structures and riverbank slopes from waves and current action.
- Another aspect of the presently disclosed thin mattress systems and methods is that they facilitate more efficient installation compared with conventional methods of dumping loose stone on top of geotextile secured on steel frame, and barging and lifting of heavy marine mattress with a heavy and specialty crane.
- Another aspect of the presently disclosed thin mattress systems and methods is directed to providing a level and even surface for coastal structures to be founded on the ground.
- Another aspect of the presently disclosed thin mattress systems and methods allows the mattress systems to be fabricated away from typically space constrained project sites, and provides for significantly more square footage of product that can be loaded, for example, onto a barge for near shore installation without the need to dredge a floatation channel.
- Yet another aspect of the presently disclosed thin mattress systems and methods allows for construction to proceed in shallow water environments as a result of the reduced weight and consequent hoisting requirements for picking and the reduced vessel draft that corresponds to the lighter placement needs.
- FIG. 1 an illustration is provided showing an overhead plan view of an example of the presently disclosed thin mattress system 100 for protecting coastal structures or riverbank against foundation bearing failure and erosion from waves and current.
- the thin mattress system 100 typically includes geotextile fabric 103 sandwiched between panels of biaxial or multi-axial geogrid 101 .
- the geotextile fabric 103 acts as a filter media and confines the fill material, which may include sand fill, rock, gravel, aggregate, soil, commercial by-products (ash, slag, etc.), recycled material (glass, polymer chips, etc.), activatable/reactive materials (bentonite, bioremediate, etc.), or the like, in the mattress system 100 .
- the geogrid 101 can be, for example, Tensar® Biaxial Geogrid or Triax® Geogrid available from Tensar International Corporation (Alpharetta, Ga.).
- Tensar® Triax® is a geogrid formed of polypropylene and provides the needed tensile capacity to support and provide stability to the coastal structures foundation.
- a single layer of geotextile fabric 103 and geogrid 101 of mattress 100 typically extends 2 feet, distance S in FIG. 1 along the length L and across the width W as overlap panel 106 .
- the overlap panel 106 is the overlap distance between two mattresses 100 .
- the geogrid 101 also extends at two sides of the mattress 100 to form lifting tabs 107 for mattress 100 to be lifted and placed, for example, under water.
- Connection elements such as rivets 102 can be made of steel or polymer material, and can be installed between 6 inch to 12 inch spacing, acting as baffles or cells within the mattress system 100 .
- the geotextile 103 and geogrid 101 mat is sewn together along the perimeter with, for example, 6,000 minimum denier thread 105 . More details of the thin mattress system 100 are shown with reference to FIG. 2 , FIG. 3 , and FIG. 4 .
- the mattress 100 has a length L, a width W and a thickness T.
- the length of the mattress 100 can generally be 30 feet in a preferred embodiment.
- the width W of the mattress 100 can generally be 6.5 feet in a preferred embodiment.
- the thickness T of the mattress 100 can generally be from 1 ⁇ 2 inch to 3 inches, and in a preferred embodiment of 1 inch.
- FIG. 2 a cross-sectional side view is shown of the thin mattress system 100 of FIG. 1 and showing more details thereof.
- the mattress system includes two panels of geogrid 101 and two panels of geotextile fabric 103 sewn together at the perimeter with high denier thread 105 .
- the steel or polymeric rivets 102 can generally be installed between 6 inches to 12 inches, and in a preferred embodiment of 12 inches.
- the rivets 102 function as spacers and tension elements to prevent bulging, and temporarily secure the panels of geogrid 101 and geotextile 103 during sand or gravel 104 placement operation.
- the lifting tab 107 includes the geogrid 101 extended outside the sewn area on the mattress 100 from one end to the other and connected with High Density Polyethylene braid or otherwise incorporated into the mattress 100 via sewing 6,000 denier thread 105 .
- a lifting bar 113 can generally be steel rebar or steel pipe depending on the size and weight of the mattress 101 .
- the assembled mattress 200 is typically filled with fill material (such as sand or gravel, as an example) through designated fill ports 108 to complete the mattress system.
- fill material such as sand or gravel, as an example
- the sand or gravel can generally be pumped into the fill ports 108 connected to a pump station 109 .
- the assembled mattress 100 may alternatively be filled on a filling frame 300 which can generally be made of expanded steel mesh 110 with safety latch 111 at both ends of the vertical frame.
- a “jig” 112 that forms a funnel at the top of the frame extends into the envelope of the mattress whereby the funnel facilitates the flow of dry sand (as an example) into the mattress cells.
- the lifting mechanism 400 of the completed mattress generally includes the lifting bar 113 , typically made of steel rebar or steel pipe connected to the lifting tabs 107 in FIG. 3 , and lifted up with cables 114 at both end of the mattress on a spreader bar 115 .
- FIG. 8 another way of lifting the completed mattress 500 is lifting along the length L of the mattress with lifting bar 113 connected to the lifting tab 107 shown in FIG. 3 .
- the lifting bar would be lifted up with cables 114 connected across the length of the lifting bar.
- the present invention was considered for use as a foundation support layer for a living shoreline project in coastal Louisiana.
- the primary feature of the project was to be a series of oyster reef structures created by placing lime rock riprap on a geotextile and bedding stone under-layer.
- the project site was located in the tidal zone with mean high water level (MHWL) of 4 feet. Due to the shallow depth and lack of landside access, the project plans called for dredging of a flotation channel to allow access from the water side.
- the stone rip rap foundation originally considered was later rejected because of the difficulties associated with placing a uniform thickness layer.
- a stone filled geogrid encapsulated mattress was also considered.
- the term “about,” when referring to a value can be meant to encompass variations of, in some embodiments ⁇ 100%, in some embodiments ⁇ 50%, in some embodiments ⁇ 20%, in some embodiments ⁇ 10%, in some embodiments ⁇ 5%, in some embodiments ⁇ 1%, in some embodiments ⁇ 0.5%, and in some embodiments ⁇ 0.1% from the specified amount, as such variations are appropriate to perform the disclosed methods or employ the disclosed compositions.
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